English poem
The Proclamation of GOD'S Name to Moses, or divine Mercy and Justice. Exod. xxxiv. 6,-8
by Philip Doddridge (1773–1832)
Attend, my Soul, the Voice divine, And mark what beaming Glories shine Around thy condescending GOD! To us, to us, he still proclaims His awful, his endearing Names: Attend, and sound them all abroad.
"JEHOVAH I, the sov'reign Lord, "The mighty GOD, by Heav'n ador'd, "Down to the Earth my Footsteps bend: "My Heart the tend'rest Pity knows, "Goodness full-streaming overflows, "And Grace and Truth shall never End.
"My Patience long can Crimes endure; "My pard'ning Love is ever sure, "When penitential Sorrow mourns; "To Millions thro' unnumber'd Years, "New Hope and new Delight it bears; "Yet Wrath against the Sinner burns."
Make Haste, my Soul, the Vision meet, All prostrate at thy Sov'reign's Feet, And drink the tuneful Accents in; Speak on, my Lord; repeat the Voice; Diffuse these Heart-expanding Joys, Till Heav'n compleat the rapt'rous Scene.
More by Philip Doddridge
- The Pillar in GOD's heavenly Temple with its Inseription. Rev. iii. 12
- The Possibility of dying this Year. Jerem. xxviii. -16
- The present and future State of the Saint and Sinner compared. Luke xvi. 25
- The Privileges of Saints by the Blood of JESUS. 1 John i. 7
- The Prosperity of the Church, the Life of a faithful Minister. 1 Thess. iii. 8
- The Rage of Enemies restrained, and overruled to the divine Glory. Psalm lxxvi. 10
- The recovered Daemoniack, an Emblem of a converted Sinner. Luke viii. 35
- The Redeemer's Tears wept over lest Souls. Luke xix. 41, 42